Former Black Stars coach, Avram Grant claims there was no belief in the team when he was appointed as the head coach of the team after the disappointing performance at the 2014 World Cup.
The former Chelsea boss took over the team after Kwesi Appiah was sacked after the Black Stars' abysmal performance at the Mundial in Brazil.
According to him, he had to build a new Black Stars that was capable of competing for trophies and he was successful in doing that in less than one year after he took over.
“When I came nobody gave them a chance after the World Cup, the country was against them which I can understand because of what happened at the World Cup,” Avram Grant told the press on his arrival in Ghana on June 20, 2023.
“I put up a plan and said that let's build another Ghana now and it was amazing.”
Sharing his fondest memories with the Black Stars, the ex-Chelsea coach said managing to seal qualification from the group stages at the 2015 AFCON was a bit difficult but his players were able to rise to the occasion.
For him, the Black Stars were the better side at the 2015 AFCON final against Ivory Coast.
“I will never forget we were in a tough group with Algeria, Senegal, South Africa. We lost the first game but we showed loads of mentality we came to the finals and there was no doubt that we were better than Ivory Coast. Yaya Toure told me this when I met him,” the coach said.
The Black Stars have failed to reach the semi-final of the AFCON on two occasions, in 2019 and 2021 after the exit of the Israeli gaffer.
Avram Grant helped Ghana place 4th at the 2017 AFCON.